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From: wiseman@tellabs.com (Jeff Wiseman)
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Subject: Re: Dollars & Sense 4.x Archives - What good are they ?
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Date: 3 Jan 91 18:46:20 GMT
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In article <44440@mips.mips.COM> libby@mips.com (Jeff Libby) writes:
>In article <1991Jan2.203320.29488@spectrum.CMC.COM>, lars@spectrum.cmc.com 
>	(Lars Poulsen) writes:
>> "last year". This procedure produces an "archive file" in a proprietary
>> format, which must be "unarchived" in order to read it. The problem is
>> that I have never managed to succesfully unarchive one of these files.
>
>The archive file seems to just be a Dollars and Sense data file.  So rather
>than trying to unarchive the archive file, just open the archive directly
>(close the current data file first, if it's already open).  You'll see a

I believe that Jeff is correct. This is an example of where Monogram called a
horse a horse but later on they called a dog a horse. The file created by the
year end close out is in fact NOT an archive file as the term is used by
Monogram. It can in fact be opened as any other account file which I find very
useful and desirable.

For safe D&S'ing always remember:

1) Never, never, never disperse twice into the same account (or you'll get the
drity database problem)

2) Frequently run the save-as and in the subsequent session, use a duplicated
copy of the save-as file. This keeps the database "neat" and seems to reduce
the number of problems that occures (as well as forces you to do backups :-).

3) Even though it is possible, avoid editing from non asset or non liability
accounts.

4) Beware of accidently using a descriptor in an account that it was not set up
for (can cause DB screwups)


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